Chapter 3 - Delinquent Duo
Meanwhile, across
town, at a small restaurant called the Jose, a shabby little car pulled up
outside. Out of it stepped a kid, about fifteen or sixteen, carrying a brown
leather bag in his right hand. He wore a white shirt with red jeans, a red
jacket, dark glasses and a bowler hat. He casually walked around the restaurant
and into the back area where many people were sitting and eating by the beach.
He stopped and scanned the area,
before spotting another kid, no younger or older than him, forcing down a piece
of cheesecake. The kid at the table looked up, revealing his face. He had
straight hair styled into a bad haircut, running down equally on every side of
his head. He also wore glasses. Thick, round ones with the emblem of a beetle
on the brim. As for his clothes he wore green silk trousers, and a green silk
shirt with a drawing of a beetle, buttoned up to his neck.
“Rex! Get over here you Dino brain!”
Rex, the kid with leather bag, ran
over towards the table. Expressionless, he sat down and muttered,
“You shouldn’t use my real name,
Weevil.”
Weevil wiped his mouth with a napkin
and chuckled to himself. “Rex Raptor,” He shouted at the top of his voice,
“We’ve got Rex Raptor here people!” He lowered his voice and, turning to Rex,
said, “See. Nobody cares. What are you trying to be, a secret agent? Take that
hat off you look like a damn fool.”
Rex removed his hat and placed it
down on the table. Next to it he placed the leather bag, and popped it open. He
reached in and pulled out smaller leather bag. He gave that to Weevil.
“What’s this?” asked Weevil.
“Our payment”, Rex replied. Weevil
opened the bag and stared inside. Inside were what had to be hundreds of the
rarest cards in duel monsters. Rex also brought out a small can of shaving
foam, and handed it to Weevil.
“What do I need shaving cream for?”
Weevil asked, scowling. He pushed down the nib and a blob of shaving cream shot
out and landed on his blueberry sponge. Rex took it from him immediately, and
started to unscrew the bottom.
“The bottom unscrews, and you can
transport the embryos inside this little holder.”
Out from the open bottom of the can
came a circular test-tube holder. Rex pressed a button on the top of it, and
the sealed lids of each holder opened. Weevil laughed like crazy, before
stuffing the can of shaving cream into his pocket.
“There’s enough coolant inside for
36 hours,” Rex explained. “The embryos have to be back in the town of Domino by
then. That’s 9:00 tomorrow evening. How are you planning to get in?”
Weevil lowered his head so all that
Rex could see was his badly cut fringe. “I’ve got it covered,” he said. “Just
because we weren’t invited to the party, doesn’t mean we can’t show up. I’ve
given myself a job in the security systems using my amazing computer hacking
skills. I’ve seen the schedule and I have an 18 minute window. If I time it
right I’ll be back here in time, as long as your guy on the boat shows up by
7:00 on the East Dock. Make sure he gets it right.”
“Good,” Rex continued. “But there’s
one problem. If we release our work to the public after the park is opened,
it’s gonna be pretty obvious that we were copying them. That’s why the park
must never be opened. We need you to take care of that.”
“Sure, how?”
“The only way the park can open is
if it is approved by the Duel Monsters champion, Yugi Muto. That’s why Seto
Kaiba is getting Yugi to go on a complementary visit. Whilst he’s there, you
have to take care of him. If he never approves it, it cannot open.”
“No problem,” Weevil replied,
casually. “The embryos will be ours, Yugi Muto will be taken care of and Seto
Kaiba will bother us no more.”
Rex and Weevil both let out a
sinister laugh, before realising that people around them were staring at them.
